the. plane has been shot down near the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi witnesses report renewed shelling despite colonel moammar gadhafi to sharon says of a cease fire. it could be the move that stops listen francais the united states into launching a decisive strike on the gadhafi regime and at the united nations resolution join me point to sit in the libyan capital so an update. washington accused of cherry picking where it intervenes rapidly mobilising for libya while innocent civilians die another nation is torn by internal strife. plus the radiation risk

rose dr hans struggles to save its crippled nuclear say eight days after the nation was overwhelmed by the powerful earthquake and tsunami. the privatization of japan's nuclear power is now being called into question the bank station's safety provides for. noon in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories here on r t colonel moammar gadhafi forces have reportedly entered the city of benghazi the libyan rebels main stronghold east of tripoli this just hours before the u.s. and britain and france and arab countries meet in paris to decide their next move against gadhafi under a new u.n. resolution for more we go live to tripoli where our teams paula sleeper is standing by hello paula so what are you hearing about the situation in benghazi who's in control of the. well it's not immediately clear who is in control but we can tell

you is that a fighter jets has been a shot down over benghazi that happened a short time ago it's not immediately clear whose plane this is but witnesses are reporting that they saw it firing on the benghazi military barracks we're also hearing from residents in the town that hours after the libyan government declared an immediate cease fire they were planes circling overhead and residents saying that this morning saturday they have been to a strike we're also hearing reports of explosions in the same two of the city we hearing gunfire is happening there we're hearing that artillery is being fired and we also know according to witnesses that on the road there are pickup trucks with machine guns now it does seem as if gadhafi forces have into the town from three areas we know that thousands of people have already been evacuated from the town and many more are leaving the town as we speak at the same time the rebels themselves claim that not only was gadhafi scored for an immediate cease fire

misleading to the international community but that it was an outright lie we are also hearing reports of fighting in the east of the country in the mountainous town of is in town and also in the east in ad and in misrata the gadhafi regime for its side in the late hours of last night held a short press conference of it it's the foreign minister they accused the rebels of being on the airplane so they choose the rebels not abiding by the cease fire but all of this of course happening while in paris an emergency summit is set to go under way by international leaders to make their final declaration of when and if the no fly zone will go ahead now in a reference to that summit that's starting shortly in paris just how close do you think we are to seeing a foreign military action being stepped up stepped up here. this seems to be a little bit of a pause yesterday it certainly took the international community by surprise when the libyan foreign minister announced this immediate cease fire but in the subsequent hour was the mood here on the ground is. very much and that be fighting

does continue and it seems as if that will be the mood represented south in paris when those international leaders meet later today we are hearing from britain from the british prime minister david cameron that he has already deployed fighter jets . and tornado fighter jets to bases they are ready to strike me in hearing from paris that it is all systems go and they are ready to be part of these military actions the united states has five ships that are in the area that can be used so certainly the reality on the ground is a back this no fly zone could be implemented within the coming hours and the latest word we hearing is that it could be implemented as soon as tonight saturday but it is important to say though that the u.s. president barack obama has issued an ultimatum to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi he has said to him pull back somewhere hold territory and assist in humanitarian efforts or else you will feel the full rough out the u.n. indorsed these strikes and at the moment if so he does seem as if the reality on the ground is pointing towards the duffy regime feeling those those airstrikes all

right our course we are live for us in tripoli with the latest right. let's go to london now and talk with a british opposition m.p. and peace campaigner jeremy corbyn who's standing by. good to have you with us so good r.t. declared a cease fire only yesterday but this morning we hear reports of new violence do you think he's testing the international community's pensions what do you think his tactic is. i think he was to call the ceasefire in order to hope one hope to bring or go to a peaceful resolution of this conflict but it was beginning to look as though he was just trying to avoid time for himself or. lack of the seeds for what is happening at the moment a lot of innocent already in florida a lot more because they're going to go in the next few hours now we're expecting a decision on libya following the summit in paris in the next few hours what do you think the leaders next moves will be. well i suspect what they will probably

do is authorize airstrikes but the problem is that if they strike against the military's targets of the regime then they might be effective in doing that but i suspect the real problem is they're going to have to strike against targets in the cities and that results in large numbers really in casualties this is a terrible situation and i would hope even at this last hours there will be frantic efforts by the u.n. representative to try to bring about a renewed ceasefire so that these strikes will happen an awful lot of innocent people died because of the situation in libya. the nations have been calling for intervention for weeks now but only seems set on action recently why do you think that is. well i think there's a lot of double standards going on here because what is happening in libya is obviously terrible and obviously gadhafi should have heeded the views of ordinary people and come to some kind of accommodation with them all removed himself from

office. there's been no condemnation worthy of anything against him saudi arabia yemen or a martin who've also been killing large numbers of civilians totally over the last few weeks and i think the west has been very selective about this do you think that there's no fly zone could escalate into a for scale military intervention. well that is the problem because the u.n. has put in place a resolution calling for a no fly zone and that is obviously they have not used the words regime change a little less clearly what's intended and if they go ahead with this and it doesn't work then the next thing is going to be what do you do next do you put in ground forces and if you put in ground forces where do they come from because i can't imagine that any arab league country is going to want to put troops into libya for very obvious reasons that the same thing could happen to them remember the arab league is led by a lot of people that are all under threat. selves. now i'm not asking you to speak

for millions of britons here but in your sense that you have what do you think the general mood is the possibility britons are facing more military involvement. i think a lot of people are very worried they've got very sore memories first of all of afghanistan particularly of iraq and now there's a worry that we're getting ourselves involved in yet another war in yet another conflict which is essentially an internal civil war in libya and at the same time only six weeks ago britain was selling arms to libya buying oil from libya police countries were investing in libya and indeed libya was investing heavily in this country and so it's in a very short space of time that libya has gone from most favored nation to zero. one is the speed of this and many of those that are now calling for the form of libya were only a few weeks ago with libya doing business deals. britain is facing armed forces the

armed forces facing massive cuts what do you think is the motivation then she would jump into the conflict in libya here. well i think the motivation is partly the pressure of events and opinion but also suspect it's all about securing a future status with whatever government comes to libya libya has passed with libya also has the potential of being a very big investor in the rest of the world indeed it has been for a very long time i think this is much more about european and western influence in the new new and emerging countries of north africa and i think the west is trying to assert itself with libya and i am also suspicious that we might end up with a division of libya almost a partition into the eastern part led by those that are currently ruling the roost garcia in the western part led by gadhafi and the remains of his government this is a very sad. very tragic situation. comes about because of the lack of

democracy because of the lack of accountability of duty it is not just to be able to also in egypt and to pursue. british opposition labor m.p. jeremy korb and thank you for speaking with us. the revolutionary mood has been spreading across the middle east and north africa for almost three months now syria is the latest country where people are marching towards their anger but for them it's about their freedom to speak out five people have reportedly been killed after security forces fired on hundreds of demonstrators in the southern city of daraa the crackdown was watched after multiple protests spread out the fighting a ban on marchers in yemen at least forty five people died dozens of others were injured after snipers allegedly opened fire on workers who staged a walkout at an anti-government protest in the capital the president's declared a thirty day state of emergency but denies his forces were involved in the shooting in the army demolished the pearl monument which had become a symbol of

a month long shiite uprising against the sunni monarchy but the foreign interference in these countries is noticeably been on the ground compared to the focus on libya right now laura lister has more on what appears to be tunnel vision of what it comes to turbulent country. god is great. final words of this ported peaceful protesters in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by both rainey security forces since martial law was declared this week the bahraini government has crackdown on pro-democracy protesters clearing them out of pearl square where they'd been demonstrating. and viral videos the details can't be confirmed have been surfacing on the internet appearing to show police shooting protesters. point blank it's reminiscent of another uprising against an autocrat and i want to address the situation in libya when. images and

reports of violence against protesters they could doppies hands in libya and reach the u.s. we saw the president take a stand. i think has lost legitimacy to lead to leave early on president obama called for plans for a no fly zone over libya now here at the united nations the security council has since taken the lead on that but meanwhile the united states has already said warships along with humanitarian aid in libya's direction it's levied tough economic sanctions on the country essentially freezing it out of the u.s. banking system and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more cofer role in the north african conflict and opposition that the cia has for thirty years is right now. according to people in direct contact with activists on the ground in bahrain they too are begging for help from the u.s. .

the u.s. has a military base in the island country the navy's powerful fifth fleet and six thousand troops are stationed there and in response to the brutal crackdown the u.s. president has wielded his authority to pick up the phone and call the king of bahrain the president expressed his deep concern over the violence in bahrain and stressed the need for maximum restraint words the forces on the ground now backed by one thousand saudi arabian troops who don't appear to be listening to critics say the talk doesn't amount to any help for the bahraini people it amounts to this absolutely there's a double standard in the way the u.s. deals with friend versus flow unlike libya the brain is a strong u.s. ally in the oil rich persian gulf it's all about oil it's also all about how you.

political military strategy the us has a lot of military assets in the persian gulf right now and we want to make sure they stay there and u.s. interests coming at the cost of people's lives and if it cost at the value of human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about and some of the blood is worthless and even beyond blood is more important it's just a critical stand that go it goes against everything we believe in in this country but you're looking at american old girl approaching helicopter gunships. and protesters in the capital and that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind auto krauts. or against them depending on the threat to u.s. interests not to lives lauren mr r.t. new york. keep on top of developments in the world of big stories by following our tea on twitter and facebook we've also got plenty of video reports and coverage

lined up for you on our you tube chart. it's. turning out in japan where aftershocks continue rattling the country raising fears of further damage workers at the stricken fukushima power plant are battling time to restore the cooling systems to stop the reactors from reaching a nuclear meltdown or his ira bennett is in japan where people are struggling to come to terms with the destruction from last week's earthquake and tsunami and the massive loss of life. the japanese nuclear agency has now raised the alert level

for from a four to a five this is on the international scale of nuclear accidents which one runs from zero to seven and chernobyl being being the only seven in nuclear history what a rating of five means is they'll have wider consequences so now it's not just considered to be a localized problem i don't know exactly what these consequences will be yet but they raise that they are rated it because to a five because they believe they could be quick damage done to the cause of reactors two and three as for the attempts to call it well they're still ongoing they're trying everything they can at the plant they haven't yet managed to reconnect how they've been trying to do that for the last forty eight hours now they have all those and through a power cable from the main grid where the problems they face is the massively higher levels of radiation which is really hampering their progress with that they're also still using water cannons from military fire engines spraying water into the reactors especially at reactors number three and thought because the mess the water level inside the used fuel rods of calls is believed to be dangerously

low eva gets too low and rods become exposed and there is a serious danger that there could be radioactive substances leaking out as it stands at the moment the government the japanese government has moved to reassure residents outside the thirty kilometer radius of the plant that there appears here risk of radiation however a number of governments foreign governments spain has now joined the u.k. and the u.s. in wanting to evacuate its citizens and also we do know that there have been ruled out of line in case in a whole lot in concrete like they did it chernobyl to. minimize the risk of the radiation mr garner the government spokesman and the chief cabinet secretary has said that in hindsight maybe they should have reacted faster and so they could have moved more quickly on all of this and listen some advice from the u.s. as well. another thing is now being called into question internationally by nuclear

experts and that is the question of privatization of japan's nuclear power. plant in a power plant is owned by the tokyo electric power company now they're the ones who whose employees the engineers are working tirelessly at it one braving ridiculously high radiation levels there to try and get the situation under control reduce the temperatures inside the reactance to try and reconnect power to that cooling systems but the question now is could this have been averted if it wasn't in private hands and were they even equipped in the first place to deal with this sort of catastrophe. no matter how hard they try disaster still looms at fukushima attempts to cool the reactors have been applauded for bravery but it's been a week since tooling capability was lost and there's no end in sight to this crisis the implications are the radiation already has spread a fair distance there probably will be an area around the plant like turn or wall that will be uninhabitable for the foreseeable future could be

a far worse the nurse the plants cooling systems may have been crippled by a natural disaster but some are now questioning the merits of the manmade decision to build reactors near the so-called ring of fire this is completely a human a disaster because that threat should never have been located there in the first place and citizens have pointed out the fact japan's nuclear industries also in private hands has led to accusations profits were put before safety fukushima's owner already has a questionable past history of falsifying safety records at the site back in the eighty's i think we also have to review the idea of privatized nuclear power because private has nuclear power means cutting corners and i think we're watching those corners being cut today what we'd like to see is the government take over these these nuclear reactors thrown private corporations because private corporations neighbor preserved. for existing is to maximize profits and i mean

exercising profits in the nuclear sector we're talking about you know my zinc concerns. and last private investors may be needed to get the ball rolling it's the other way around if things go wrong i think it's going to be inevitable that the state will take over in order to contain these plants will probably need to be covered with concrete and sand much like trouble was and i think the state will take over responsibility for that. i think whether the state has it or private companies do it it's very difficult for anyone to do japan's no stranger to nuclear tragedies this is where the second that's all i got was dropped to nine hundred forty five they're trying everything they can at fukushima top first another disaster but it has nuclear watchdog is already expecting wider consequences the question is how many will be affected i bet it's not see like

a sack. everyone's taking japan's assessment of its nuclear crisis at face value alex per an expert on japanese culture says the government is intentionally concealing the severity of the situation. there is a long tradition within the nuclear industry and town of trading or at least. twisting or misinterpreting the evidence one example is raising it's a five it's been four for a long time which was the level of three mile island where there was nuclear radiation should that no nuclear material released into the environment this one is that nazism ounce of nuclear materials huge radiation and only now dollars will wrenchingly is it raised to five and it of course most people believe it should be six so there is still an attempt to play it down chilled to the newspaper yesterday had an article in which they did not point to the plume of white smoke coming out of one of the reactors and they say temperament is saying it's

a plume of white smoke but they really mean it is explosions i think what we can you can sure of is that this mess will take weeks maybe months to clear up it's really very serious much more than than the government is that it is. nuclear power of those often sold as the queen green solution to meet our burgeoning energy demands but as the crisis unfolds of fukushima people are questioning whether they want that danger on their doorstep. as you can start us with a nuclear crisis are you concerned about the stability of nuclear facilities near you this week let's talk about that. so the field is cold enough when you click on an england pretty safe you feel like it's a ship. ourselves across the river from a nuclear power plant virginia and it's it's it's it's it's a concern certainly

it's better than spending a lot of tax dollars on a new energy source as some people you know it's like this you know you look at cell phones you know cell phone service where you always were if a report came out tomorrow that says cell phones cause cancer of people to cell phones down rather not so people take the nuclear energy if it says even works people are really interested in you know surfin weigh ins and the different kinds of alternative energies but even about those. two enough to put enough money into the research there's enough research dollars that it's not going to be a viable alternative and what pays for those is tax alice right correct so if we stop spending money and will we can start spending money on energy getting that would never happen. hopefully in my lifetime i find it amazing the amount of energy what's being used here in eric rose in light specifically here on times square so i think people are. maybe

a bit too much used to use loads and loads of energy so i guess it's what's going to be quite hard to get them to use. to spend more on green energy because they're going to be more expensive do you support nuclear energy you know when i. will because it's a disaster i think you think it's a disaster waiting to happen absolutely so what should we do because we consume a lot of energy on idea i have no clue i got if you don't know then how can we rule out nuclear energy. why is the many people so afraid of nuclear energy you know that this is happening right now but most plants are pretty state sure i think it centers on people always thinking the worst and maybe that's the reaction from nine eleven even would people always think of the things that could get bad so i think there's that armageddon feeling whether or not use that word nuclear energy the bottom line is that with all of our energy out since there comes in one form or another high price to pay.

and sure to give us your reaction to the events that are shaping the world right now you can click on our t.v. dot com where we have more analysis on today's top stories and a whole lot more for fear of that spreading faster than radiation or read how those living well beyond japanese shores are clearing out their pharmacies they want to avoid contamination but without proper advice there are jeopardizing their health and. gunning for a new album to symbolize a state utah adopts a firearm as its token a major find out why it. was russian energy giant gazprom wants to get its point across to st petersburg officials who threw out plans for a controversial skyscraper the next step in the court room all of the details online.

let's check on some of the hour's other world news headlines there's been heavy fighting between the army and rebels in southern sudan leaving at least seventy dead the violence started after a failure to get militias to join the southern army in your oil producing areas near what will be a new national border southern sudan becomes an independent state in july following a mostly peaceful referendum that almost unanimously chose to secede the northern governments accused of arming rebel factions. u.n. secretary general has condemned the increase in violence on the ivory coast and he will describe the situation as urban warfare and a crime against humanity this after the deadly shelling by security forces in a market in which at least twenty five people are thought to have died the u.n. blames forces loyal to the president who refuses to leave his post despite losing last year's poll sparking months of violence. and egyptians are taking part in

their first fully free votes in decades in a referendum on constitutional reform so organized by the military leadership which is in charge when february's uprising that toppled the presidency of hosni mubarak over half of egypt's eighty million people are eligible to vote and people have been forming long lines since this morning there are forms were allowed for parliamentary elections in the future. we'll look at russia's romance with the city of lights in just a few minutes stay with us. in

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